"Protect & Grow American Jobs" Act Pulled from House Committee

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee decided not to vote on the controversial H-1B bill last week, pulling it from the House schedule.
The bill is intended to “close a major loophole” in a visa program that both Indian and U.S. IT services companies use to hire foreign-born technology professionals and bring them to the U.S.
According to Russell Harrison, director of government relations for IEEE-USA, the H-1B bill would reduce outsourcing for jobs that pay less than US$100k, but wouldn’t end outsourcing entirely, as some supporters would have hoped.
“[We] would prefer Congress to simply ban the use of H-1Bs to replace American workers,” said Harrison. “It’s a simple fix, consistent with the intent of the H-1B program, and popular with the American public.”